AD. 1901.]
PUBLIC HEALTH.
[No. 10.
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3.
Ordinance, every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an owner: "Person" includes a body corporate and an association: "Premises" include any land, building, or structure of any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, paddy-field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered, or enclosed, cesspool, or foreshore, also any vessel or boat lying within the waters of the Colony:
"Public latrine means any latrine to which the public are admitted on payment or otherwise:
"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Sanitary Board:
"Street" includes any square, court, or alley, highway, lane, road, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not:
"Tenant" means any person who holds direct from any householder the whole of any floor or floors of any building or tenement-house:
"Tenement-house means any domestic building let to and inhabited by more than one occupier or family, as tenants of a common landlord or as sub-tenants of a tenant of any portion of such domestic building:
"Vessel" means any steam or sailing ship, launch, junk, lighter, sampan, or boat.
By-Laws
The By-Laws in the First Schedule to this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been duly made by the Sanitary Board, approved by the Legislative Council, and gazetted under this Ordinance, and shall remain in force until altered, amended, or revoked.
(2.) All persons now holding any offices or appointments under any Ordinance repealed by this Ordinance shall continue to hold such offices or appointments as if they had been appointed under this Ordinance.
Constitution and General Powers of the Sanitary Board.
of existing officers.
First Schedule:
Board.
4-(1.) The Sanitary Board shall consist of the Director of Public Works, the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Principal Civil Medical Officer, and (if appointed by the Governor) the Medical Officer of Health, and not more than six additional members, four of whom (two being Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor, and two elected by such ratepayers as are included in the Special and Common Jury Lists, and also by such ratepayers as are exempt from serving on juries on account of their professional avocations.
(2.) Non-official members of the Board shall hold office for three years.
(3.) The Governor shall have power to appoint the Medical Officer of Health for the time being a member of the Board, and, when appointed, such officer shall have all the powers, privileges, and authorities of any other ordinary member of the Board.